The New Nintendo 3DS with the interchangeable coverplates is no longer in production. The news was announced today by Nintendo Japan. The system hasn’t proved to be as popular as the New Nintendo 3DS XL, which rules the roost. The current models of the Nintendo 3DS will be the New Nintendo 3DS XL and the upcoming New Nintendo 2DS XL.
Production Has Ended On The Small New Nintendo 3DS
Welp, time to ditch the “XL” moniker.
Damn it. Well, then I guess I’ll have to settle for stretched out pixels if I need a new one.
The beginning of the end.
You did great 3DS, you can rest now.
“That’ll do, pig. That’ll do.”
And eventually, they’ll announce that ALL new 3DS systems are no longer going to be produced. I’ve been waiting all this time in hopes that they’d release a SNES edition before buying one (since they released a Super Famicom edition in Japan). But I still haven’t seen one. I’ll never own one unless they release a Super NES edition.
At this point you’ll never own one then. I doubt they would release one this late.
RIP a bunch of naysayers wanted it here because of the faceplates, guess they didn’t want it that badly.
I held out for one but my buddy ended up selling me his N3dsXL for $80 before the small one got announced here in the states. I couodnt pass that up lol
The end is nigh. The 3DS has had an amazing run and was Nintendo’s saver during the Wii U’s life cycle
And I never got one of these…
I just know it will be the day when the Nintendo Handheld and home console will become one Hip hip hurray.
Until then the fans has the XL and 2DS to play, while I get on my broom and float away.
….um, I think that day is here. They call it THE NINTENDO SWITCH!! Lol
Much better, Your Gruntiness. But we still have to do a little work on Metre.
If it wasn’t already obvious The 3DS will be fazed out in 2018, this means Pokemon should be coming to the system during the 2018 holiday season or early 2019 and the system will be at its peak in 2019/2020.
The last 3DS Pokémon will be this November.
I like how this is the only one of 3 sites I saw that didn’t go “Nintendo stops New 3DS production in Japan” in the title leaving out the important “only the standard version” information out of it….
I will give you twice as many clicks I gave them for that.
I’ve been wondering if they were gonna do this. It’s for this exact reason that they didn’t release the regular New 3DS in the States outside of a bundle. It’s unfortunate because I know people who prefer the smaller size of the regular 3DS. Luckily the design of the New 2DS XL has nearly the same gripping area as the regular with the width and screen sizes of the XL.
I hope that in 2020 they announce a new 3DS with near Wii U graphics (or better) and contain a 720p OLED screen, and multitouch on both screens…..hopefully better cameras. But something that is more mobile than switch. …switch is a home system, the point is that its simple in design that you can bring it anywhere (for a very limited time) that same year we well probably see a “switch pro” much like the Xbox one X. But i don’t see Nintendo doing like Xbox in that all new games well still work for the gen one switch.
Hope we get a Switch XL
10″ monitor with 4k display.
What? Am I too old to dream?
They did the same with the Wii U’s 8gb set, aka basic set, when they realized 8gbs was stupid & that most people were getting the 32gb one instead. Yet Wii U continued for a time even after that. So the small n3DS getting canned doesn’t mean the 3DS as a whole is out the door soon. If they truly are gonna support it in 2018, you still have all of this year, next year, & some of 2019 for the 3DS to continue selling in the market.
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